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1 The Children's Medical & Research Foundation

The Children's Medical & Research Foundation is the principal fundraising body for the Children's Research Centre, as well as for Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin and is dedicated to working to improve the quality of life for this and future generations of sick children.

The Foundation plays a vital role in providing financial support to assist our globally recognised Children's Research Centre and is committed to the pursuit of the highest standards in the quality, efficiency and transparency of fundraising and expenditure.

Funds coming from the Foundation target our main programmes of research, education, capital expenditure. You too can support this vital work because together we can and will beat childhood illness and disease.

2. The Health Research Board

About the Health Research Board

The Health Research Board (HRB) is the lead agency in Ireland supporting and funding health research, providing funding, maintaining health information systems and conducting research linked to national health priorities. Their aim is to improve people's health, build health research capacity and make a significant contribution to Ireland's knowledge economy. Their latest Corporate Strategy clearly outlines how they hope to achieve this working in partnership with other organisations.

Vision

The HRB's vision is to: Enable a world-class health system in Ireland through excellence in research and to contribute actively to the knowledge economy

Mission

The HRB's mission is to: Improve people's health through research and information

Strategic objectives

The HRB will achieve its mission by delivering on the strategic objectives outlined below.

  1. Shape the national agenda for research in health and personal social services
  2. Support research and health information systems linked to national health priorities, in order to improve people's health and the effectiveness of the health system
  3. Build capacity for world-class health research in Ireland
  4. Advance the contribution that health research makes to a sustainable knowledge economy
  5. Increase awareness and understanding of both the impact and the value of health research and information
  6. Establish Ireland as a significant contributor to international policy on health research

3. Science Foundation Ireland

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is a key organisation in the implementation of the NDP 2007-2013 and the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation 2006-2013. A sum of €8.2 billion has been allocated for scientific research under the NDP and SSTI of which SFI has responsibility to invest €1.4 billion. SFI will continue to invest in academic researchers and research teams who are most likely to generate new knowledge, leading edge technologies and competitive enterprises in the fields underpinning two broad areas:

In addition, the Research Frontiers Programme supports the very best research in a broad range of disciplines in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. SFI makes grants based upon the merit review of distinguished scientists.

SFI also advances co-operative efforts among education, government, and industry that support its fields of emphasis and promotes Ireland's ensuing achievements around the world.

4. The Wellcome Trust

The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £15 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.

5. The Jenner Institute

The Jenner Institute was founded in November 2005 to develop innovative vaccines against major global diseases. Uniquely it focuses both on diseases of humans and livestock and tests new vaccine approaches in parallel in different species. A major theme is translational research involving the rapid early-stage development and assessment of new vaccines in clinical trials.

Jenner Institute Investigators, through the avid support of many funders, are now developing promising new vaccine candidates against major global infectious diseases. New vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and HIV are in field trials in the developing world. Research is also underway on livestock vaccines against foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, bovine tuberculosis and other major causes of economic loss. The clinical activities of the Institute are at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, with strong links to units in developing countries.

The Institute is a partnership between the University of Oxford and the Institute for Animal Health and is the successor to the former Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research. The Institute is supported by the Jenner Vaccine Foundation, a UK registered charity.

The Institute comprises the research activities of over 20 Jenner Investigators who head leading research groups spanning human and veterinary vaccine research and development. Together the Institute Investigators comprise one of the largest non-profit sector research and development activities in vaccinology.

6. National Institutes of Healths

NIH is the US's medical research agency - making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research.

Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases.

NIH research impacts:

Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world. The NIH traces its roots to 1887 with the creation of the Laboratory of Hygiene at the Marine Hospital in Staten Island, NY.

7. EU Fifth Framework Programme